Snow Equipment Owning/Operating My First Snow Plowing Video

wvpolekat · Jan 8, 2011

Made a quick video last night while plowing a couple inches of snow off my road. Mounted the camera on the SMV triangle bracket, so it shakes a bit. It's not terribly exciting, just watching snow roll off the blade. What I found interesting was how much the blade moves around.

Starts with a couple of passes down my driveway, then a pass each way down the road. You can see and hear the tractor slow down and labor more as I go up hills, and at one point towards the end I had to raise the blade to get going again because I lost traction and momentum going up hill.

Enjoy. Comment.

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CompactTractorFan · Jan 8, 2011

Great video!!! :thumbsup: Do you use one of those waterproof sport cameras?

wvpolekat · Jan 8, 2011

I used my son's Creative Vado HD. While not waterproof, it has a little rubber jacket that keeps the water off it.

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Ductape · Jan 8, 2011

Pretty neat. For your next video, you'll need to come up with a mount with less vibration....... but still cool to see.

wvpolekat · Jan 8, 2011

Yeah, this was just quick and dirty. I tie wrapped it onto the SMV triangle. I knew it was going to shake, but it was easy. It does have a place for a tripod mount (1/4-20 I think) that I could probably pretty easily find a way to make a mount with. May take a trip to lowes today and see what I can cobble up.

kebo · Jan 8, 2011

All I saw was a big hammer!!

You have a pretty long driveway there, but the Kubota made pretty quick work of it though. Good job.

wvpolekat · Jan 8, 2011

kebo said:
All I saw was a big hammer!! You have a pretty long driveway there, but the Kubota made pretty quick work of it though. Good job.

Driveway is only about 40 yards. The majority of that is road. Since it's a private road, the HOA has to pay to have it plowed. With only 7 homes in the HOA, it adds up quick. So, I do the majority of it. I think the road is about 1/4 mile. I have burned more diesel plowing this year than I did mowing last summer.

Maybe next video will be forward facing, but not much to see that way.

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IC Smoke · Jan 8, 2011

Great video!!!

Id like to get one of these camera's this year to take some action shots:

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JohninCT · Jan 8, 2011

wvpolekat said:
Yeah, this was just quick and dirty. I tie wrapped it onto the SMV triangle. I knew it was going to shake, but it was easy. It does have a place for a tripod mount (1/4-20 I think) that I could probably pretty easily find a way to make a mount with. May take a trip to lowes today and see what I can cobble up.

Cool video. Maybe you could mount the camera on a broomstick or some sort of pole and have it face rearward so you can get more of a view of the whole tractor and blade at work.